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*Yawn
What is with the union shills all of a sudden?
Government contracts dry up, or something?
Perhaps you have a decent union. However, my experience with unions is that they exploit Prevailing Wage laws to force out competition. They often impose licensing that is legally tied to the support from unions (a union registered with the government for prevailing wage laws also must certify a license to perform work, legally, in the region).
In areas where unions don't have a complete stranglehold, it isn't uncommon for non-union construction sites to be vandalized or sabotaged while union sites remain unharmed.
I have yet to find a union which looks to use dues from its members to provide much in the way of education or training. The trades have evaporated under unions. Where were the welding unions when shop class faded from schools? Where were the unions when college tuition fees began to balloon into the stratosphere and student loans began to resemble mortgages?
Unions are MAGA? Go fuck yourself with a cactus. At the BEST... Unions were hole-in-the-wall social clubs for those escaping the apocalypse of the trades. In general, however, they were ponzi schemes for milking even more revenues into CIA slush funds while breeding political compliance.